One day later, Luo Xian arrived at the coastal town of Gray Harbor. Jin gave him three days, but Luo Xian arrived two days earlier.
Most coastal towns relied on fishing as their main source of income. Gray Harbor was the same, and it had the famous [Fish Market].
Every Sunday, the fishing boats that went out to sea returned to the harbor and unloaded the harvest of the week to the market not far from the harbor.
The regular seafood was set at the normal price, and the special seafood was auctioned at zero starting price. This was the [Fish Market] of Gray Harbor, and it only opened once a week.
Special seafood was basically rare for fishermen. Usually, it could be included in the hierarchy of seafood treasures. It was unknown whether the fishermen in Gray Harbor were favored by the sea god, as they could catch some peculiar seafood every week.
Because of the grand occasion created by the [Fish Market], on Sunday, there would be a large number of outsiders in Gray Harbor, all for the special seafood.
Among this group of outsiders, more than half were people sent by famous restaurants or hotels from other places, and there were also rich people who liked food who sent their subordinates to try their luck.
Although it was a fair bidding, in the eyes of the local restaurants, this group of outsiders was still regarded as food grabbers.
Luo Tian came to Gray Harbor just in time for the opening of the [Fish Market], so he went to join in the fun.
The layout of the [Fish Market] was like a large job fair, and the simple looking sheds were neatly arranged.
Unlike ordinary markets, the area of the [Fish Market] was large enough, and the road between the sheds was wide enough. It seemed to be designed to accommodate a lot of people.
If it was only opened once a week, it would give people a feeling of waste. It was equivalent to only using such a large area four times a month. But the [Fish Market] did have the capital, and every time it opened, there would be a large amount of income.
Walking into the [Fish Market], there was a lot of noise. Most of it was the conversation of the guests and the vendors, but there were also a lot of voices. Fortunately, the passage was wide enough, and even though there were a lot of people coming and going, it did not seem crowded.
Luo was wearing a rustic straw hat, a short-sleeved shirt, a pair of boxers, and a pair of flip-flops. There was a Silver Eyed Black Cat sitting on his shoulder. The whole style looked quite strange.
Along the way, they saw more than a hundred kinds of seafood, and this was only the result of walking for a short while. They didn't know how many kinds of seafood there were in such a big fish market.
"Buy some fish for you to eat?" Law said as he walked.
The Black Cat raised its head and snorted. "Just these lousy things?"
"Broken thing? Can you afford it? "Law sneered.
Black Cat's face stiffened, and he didn't say anything.
There were many kinds of seafood in the fish market stalls, but it was not what Law wanted. After walking for a while, he went straight to the auction venue in the center of the fish market, which was the main attraction.
One of the more famous characteristics of the Fish Market was that it was large enough. As the auction venue where the most important items were located, it was also very spacious. However, even though the area was large enough, it was always packed with people every time the Fish Market opened.
Most people purposely came to the fish market in Gray Harbor for the precious ingredients that could be listed in the grade. Sometimes, if they were lucky, they could even encounter seafood that they had never seen before.
"There are so many people."
Law barely squeezed into the venue and saw that the seats in the venue were full, while others were standing, almost filling the entire venue.
Before entering the venue, you have to pay a thousand rings in exchange for a number tag. After the auction, you can refund the money with the tag.
The number of the tag that Law got was 42666. He just had to raise the tag before bidding.
Because the special seafood was different every time, the fish market auction was not like a regular auction where the participants would be given a booklet of auction items in advance. Before the auction items were presented, no one would know what the good stuff was today.
There were still about twenty minutes before the auction began. Law began to squeeze forward in order to get to the front. The Black Cat saw that Law wanted to make canned sardines, so he slipped back into the tattoo.
There was a huge LCD screen on the auction stage and a loudspeaker that could be heard by everyone in the venue. Nevertheless, there were still many people who wanted to squeeze to the front row like Law.
In the process of pushing the crowd, Law accidentally knocked down a little girl.
Law was about to apologize, but he saw the little girl quickly get up and angrily said to Law: "Don't you have eyes?"
With that, the little girl glared at Law fiercely and did not give Law a chance to speak. She pushed the people in front of her with both hands and went in the direction of the auction stage.
Law raised his finger to the edge of the straw hat and looked at the direction where the little girl disappeared and smiled helplessly.
The little girl looked like she was only ten years old. The number tag was inserted into her clothes behind her back, and the tag with the number tag hung just above the back of her head. It looked very funny, and it gave off a sense of déjà vu as if she was being sold.
This little child also came to join in the fun?
Law shook his head. He didn't know that the age of his body was also in the ranks of minors.
After some effort, he finally squeezed to the front. He offended a lot of people along the way, but when he saw that Law was very young, he didn't care about it.
The auction stage was a large stage, higher than one meter. There was only a podium on the stage. There was no special wooden hammer for the auction on it, only a microphone.
A display screen hung above the stage, and on the left and right sides were sound systems. A middle-aged man with a moustache in a suit walked out from the backstage and came to the podium and said: "Welcome to the arrival of all guests."
First, he followed the usual opening remarks, and then went straight to the main topic.
"In today's auction, there are several very special seafood. I think everyone who can come to the scene is very clear. In the fish market, in addition to the highest price, there is another special case, and that is, the highest skill wins."
"Let's not talk nonsense. First, the first special auction item, the sea porpoise!"
As soon as the moustache man's voice fell, the staff pushed out ten cars. Each car was piled with a large number of ice cubes, and a spherical creature with four feet long spikes was placed on the ice cubes. It was the sea porpoise.
"This week's luck is very good. We caught the 'tide' and caught ten sea porpoises at once!"
"That's right. This is the sea porpoise, known as one of the treasures of the deep sea. However, the sea porpoise is highly poisonous. If you want to eat it, you have to remove the poison bag in its body. This requires superb and stable skills. If the removal of the poison bag fails, the sea porpoise's body will be full of poison in an instant."
"There are ten sea porpoises here. According to the rules of 'the highest skill wins', if any of the guests here can remove the poison bag successfully, they will get half of the profit of the ten sea porpoises. On the other hand, if they fail, they will have to buy the sea porpoise at the price of the failed product."
The moustache man smiled politely, looked around at the guests, and said: "Please consider carefully before deciding if you want to go on stage."
"I'll do it!"
At this time, a clear and tender female voice came from below the stage. Looking towards the source of the voice, it was a little girl around ten years old. She squeezed out of the crowd like a kitten, jumped over the railing, and walked up the stairs to the stage.
When the audience saw the pink-haired little girl, the entire place fell silent. Not only had her actions exceeded everyone's expectations, but she had also placed her auction plate behind her and was now standing on the stage. It was as if she had become one of the auction items.
"It's her. Didn't she hear the rules?"
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